TV doctor Grant Robicheaux and lover Cerissa Riley ‘may have drugged and raped hundreds’

“Clean-cut good looks”: Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley
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David Gardner19 September 2018
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A doctor has been charged alongside his girlfriend with drugging and sexually assaulting two women amid fears there could be hundreds more victims.

Orthopaedic surgeon Grant Robicheaux, 38, who appeared on TV reality show Online Dating Rituals Of The American Male, is accused of travelling with Cerissa Riley, 31, to US festivals to trawl for victims who trusted their “clean-cut good looks”.

Investigators are now going through “thousands of videos and images” on Robicheaux’s phone, which allegedly feature unidentified “highly-intoxicated women” who are “barely responsive to the defendant’s sexual advances”.

The pair face charges including rape by use of drugs, assault with intent to commit a sexual offence and possession of a controlled substance for sale, in relation to two women.

Both Robicheaux, of Newport Beach, California, and Riley, from Brea, deny all allegations.

Orange County prosecutors claim the couple gave “multiple drugs” to a 32-year-old woman they met at a Newport Beach restaurant in April 2016 before taking her back to Robicheaux’s flat and raping her.

Also in 2016, they allegedly drank with another woman at a Newport Beach bar until she was “no longer conscious” then took her to the flat and sexually assaulted her.

In a joint statement, their lawyers said: “All allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied.”

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